Lovely little plant, the pseudobulbs are only a little more than an inch tall. Large (for plant size) bizarre flowers are borne one per inflorescence. This is the “attractive color variation… that is a pale yellow throughout with light red spots.” (Siegerist, 2001) Photo courtesy Tomas Bajza

This is the true makoyanum. Small hot to warm-growing epiphyte has outrageous umbels with flowers held out in a horizontal plane. Yellow with red petals and dorsal sepals, which have hairs on their backs. The red areas form a fuzzy red ring at the center of the umbel. High class Bulbophyllum!

Miniature warm-growing epiphyte found growing on the bases of small trees and shrubs. Several flowers are borne singly on erect inflorescenses right above the foliage. Flowers are yellowish, heavily mottled with maroon. Lip is maroon and white.

Photo of ‘Red Chimney’ in our website gallery. China, India, Assam. Another less-common variety of the fantastically showy red-purple flowered B. roth. Different from ‘Red Chimney’ – perhaps fuller segments and slightly different colors. The species was found in a box of nearly dead orchids arriving in England in 1892, said to be found in the hills above Darjeeling. The plants were sent on to Lord Rothschild and flowered in 1895. (From the Orchid Review Dec. 1922 and featured in Bill Thom’s fascinating and entertaining book ‘Bulbophyllum – The Incomplete Guide; From A To Why?’)